In 1790, Immanuel Kant wrote in Kritik der Urtheilskraft ( Critique of Judgement ) that the analogy of animal forms implies a common original type, and thus a common parent.

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

Marx, on the other hand, uses a measurement analogy, arguing that for commodities to be comparable they must have a common element or substance by which to measure them, and that labor is a common substance of what Marx eventually calls commodity-values.

Compound that are not the semantical sum of their of its constituents can be interpreted through analogy, common sense and context

Any linear-chain heteropolymer can be said to have a " primary structure " by analogy to the usage of the term for proteins, but this usage is rare compared to the extremely common usage in reference to proteins.

A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —" in satire, irony is militant "— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing.

The methodology of legal precedent and reasoning by analogy ( Qiyas ) are also similar in both the Islamic and common law systems.

The word has survived in common usage today only to define a place where rabbits breed and live, thus a network of underground interconnecting rabbit burrows, and by analogy an overcrowded place or building.

* 1937: Orson Welles ' famous production at the Mercury Theatre drew fervoured comment as the director dressed his protagonists in uniforms reminiscent of those common at the time in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, as well as drawing a specific analogy between Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer ( Cetonia aurata ), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.

He has developed this argument in two different fashions: firstly, in God and Other Minds, by drawing an equivalence between the teleological argument and the common sense view that people have of other minds existing by analogy with their own minds.

The common analogy is with the rolling of a small ball of snow down a snow-covered hillside.

The two most prominent systems, canon law and shari ' a, differ from other religious laws in that Canon law is the codification of Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox law as in civil law, while shari ' a derives many of its laws from juristic precedent and reasoning by analogy ( like in a common law tradition ).

Seahenge is so named by analogy with Stonehenge and does not possess an extant henge and appears to have had little functionally in common with its namesake.

The common analogy given to describe this is trying to determine the type of animal from its footprints.

A common analogy involves the way that a dip in a flat sheet of rubber, caused by a heavy object sitting on it, influences the path taken by small objects rolling nearby, causing them to deviate inward from the path they would have followed had the heavy object been absent.

In the common analogy of an object causing a dip in a flat cloth, normal de Sitter space has a curvature analogous to a flat cloth sitting atop a sphere with a very slight curvature because it is so large.

In the common analogy of an object causing a dip in a flat cloth, anti de Sitter space has a curvature analogous to a flat cloth sitting on a saddle, with a very slight curvature because it is so large.

Some propose that classifier – noun pairings are based on innate semantic features of the noun ( for example, all " long " nouns take a certain classifier because of their inherent longness ), and others claim that they are motivated by analogy to more prototypical pairings ( for example, " dictionary " takes the same classifier as the more common word " book ").

A common analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer, presents these parts of society as " organs " that work toward the proper functioning of the " body " as a whole.

A binary asteroid is a system of two asteroids orbiting their common center of mass, in analogy with binary stars.

The common analogy is that of material being removed or displaced by a cutting or plowing operation.

In the " two-source hypothesis ," Q explains where the authors of Matthew and Luke got the material that they have in common with each other but that is not found in Mark, such as the Lord's prayer.

Robert E. Kennedy explains however that this common argument of the mass emigration from Ireland being a " flight from famine " is not entirely correct.

* A common explanation using Bernoulli's principle asserts that the air must traverse both the top and bottom in the same amount of time and that this explains the increased speed on the ( longer ) top side of the wing.

kIPS is also a common joke name for 16 bit microprocessor designs developed in undergraduate computer engineering courses that use the text Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy ( ISBN 1-55860-428-6 ), which explains computer architecture concepts in terms of the MIPS architecture.

This mechanism also explains why quasars were more common in the early universe, as this energy production ends when the supermassive black hole consumes all of the gas and dust near it.

As Rudolf Kingslake explains, " It is a common error to suppose that the ratio is actually equal to, and not ...

The Southeast Asian origin of the first Malagasy people explains certain features common among the Malagasy, for instance, the epicanthic fold common among all Malagasy whether coastal or highlands, whether pale, dark or copper skinned.

The most common use of the colon is to inform the reader that what follows the colon proves, explains, or lists elements of what preceded it.

The theory that explains its origin in connection with the figure of the Good Shepherd carrying the lamb on his shoulders, so common in early Christian art, may be an explanation a posteriori.

Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).

* Diana Wynne Jones: The Tough Guide To Fantasyland explains and parodies the common features of a standard fantasy world

The division of comorbidity as per syndromal and nosological principles is mainly preliminary and inaccurate, however it allows us to understand that comorbidity can be connected to a singular cause or common mechanisms of pathogenesis of the conditions, which sometimes explains the similarity in their clinical aspects, which makes it difficult to differentiate between nosologies.

Due to the limited width of the card, the kamal was only really useful for measuring Polaris in equatorial latitudes, which perhaps explains why it was not common in Europe.

Thorough wetting is a common cause, which explains why slumping is often associated with heavy rainfall, storm events and earthflows.

Heating catechin past its point of decomposition releases pyrocatechol ( also called catechol ), which explains the common origin of the names of these compounds.

This feature explains both the common name threadfin and the family name Polynemidae, from the Greek poly meaning " many " and nema meaning " filament.

Typified by large heads with large mouths and eyes, grenadiers have slender bodies that taper greatly to a very thin caudal peduncle or tail ( excluding one species, there is no tail fin ): this rat-like tail explains the common name rattail and the family name Macrouridae, from the Greek makros meaning " great " and oura meaning " tail ".

This mode of inheritance explains why HPA is so common among certain families ( Kennerknecht et al.

The contemporary Greek proverb, " της Λάμιας τα σαρώματα " (" the Lamia's sweeping "), epitomises slovenliness ; and the common expression, " τό παιδί τό ' πνιξε η Λάμια " (" the child has been strangled by the Lamia "), explains the sudden death of young children ( ibid ).

While a number of Native American characteristics are common on the Pacific Coast, Gitzen explains why fully feathered baskets known only among the Coast Miwok because Heizer and the Navigators Guild use 20th century decorative baskets by artist William Benson as if they are somehow the baskets described by Fletcher who never said the baskets were " full feathered " but yet the Guild continues to say he did by offering up these decorative baskets.

Additionally, The Purdue Online Writing Lab explains common causes ranging an author being assigned a boring topic to an author who is so stressed out he / she cannot put words on the page, and suggests " possible cures " or invention strategy for each.

David explains their time travel, assuming it is a common modern occurrence, but realizes the doctor doesn't believe him.

The commentary explains that the laws were based on the concept of Volksgemeinschaft (" People's community ") to which every German was bound by common blood.